Thanks and Goodbye

With great excitement i would like to announce that I have accepted an exclusive full time position with the Fight Network as Manager of Online Media. I will no longer be involved with Top MMA News and I will be handing over the site to my partner Keith Grienke.

This is a dream job that allows me to pool my unique set of skills from the 20 years in the IT industry to the 15+ years in the MMA world. I am excited to be involved with Canada’s only channel dedicated to combat sports, which is carried on all major cable, satellite and telco systems in the country, in addition to operating thefightnetwork.com and the associated mobile applications available on iphones and Android.

Stepping away from Top MMA News allows the site to be successful and allows myself as Manager of Online Media with the Fight Network to work on future content partnerships, and broker deals between these two excellent properties.

I would also like to thank the many fans who have helped the site grow as it has, for your countless contributions in the form of a comment or forum post. All comments, good or bad, were all we needed to know we had a successful website.

I’d also like to send a special thanks to Leonard Asper, for getting involved in the sport of Mixed Martial Arts and entering the Fight world when he acquired the Fight Network. I’ve always had a tremendous amount of respect for all the hard working folks at the Fight Network and I look forward to joining them in their fight. They are some of the hardest working people around. Everybody at the Network have been great to deal with and it’s been quite a humbling response.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank everybody at Top MMA News, from my partner Keith Grienke, to the many staff who help us run the country’s most visited MMA site from Big Win Don Wilson, Jason Bouwmeester, Ali Lundblad, Cody Rempel, Mike Fischl and many more. Without each of you, I wouldn’t be where I am right now and I can’t ever thank you all enough.

But the time has come where I must depart and pursue my dream of having my passion as my full time job. I believe my style will fit in well with the rest of the hard working warriors at the fight network and we are going to accomplish great things together.

23 Responses to “
Thanks and Goodbye ”

Congrats Marc all the best in the new venture and i am looking forward to seeing your touch on the network. Hopefully unlike Mr Black you can get rid of all those silly shows and stick to fighting on the fight network. Damn you Robin Black Damn You. Best of luck buddy

MAD – it really was a pleasure working with you. All of your behind the scenes work which benefited MMA in Canada with this site and beyond has not gone unnoticed. All the best at The Fight Network. You’ve laid the groundwork for hands down the best Canadian MMA website. Cheers.

Damn you Gunner, damn you! I’m doin my best to contribute to The Fight Network. I’ll try to be more involved this year! Maybe a Robin Black talk show is what you want?

Enough about dummies like Robin and Gunner. Marc-Andre, thanks for everything man. Really. I’m so excited you are going to play a huge part in growing The Fight Network and helping it explode in the next year.

you have done great a thing for this sport with this site, so fighters have a place to bicker at each other, find upcoming event cards and hack them down, post videos of frog bjj(amazing) a place where keyboard warriors can insult us so bad with big words we have no comebacks, and annouce the top ko’s of 2010 …..oh wait…..and yes im still monitoring that…..a guy can dream cant he? thank you very much marc the best of luck to you.

Congrats Marc-André! It always been a pleasure to deal with you in the past. You did an awesome job and I’m happy that it lead you to a “dream job” at The Fight Network. However, I have to admit I’m sad you had to left Top MMA News. I’m pretty sure your partners will handle the situation and continue to produce quality content, just as you guys always did. Congratulations again!